Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-16
PACIFIC COAST.
EXCITING CHASE AND CAPTURE
OF BURGLARS.
An Arctic Survivors, Story Eni-
demic of Fires-Murder in
San Mateo - Etc.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRD-usIos.I
ARCTIC HORRORS.
Interview With One of the Survivors of
the GreelY Exneditinn

SAN FRANCISCO, August 15th.-[Special. =
captain Normans story of the finding of the
suryvors & OF the Greely party, as told in Chicago
tions of the day. This afternoon a renorter in
tervlewed Maurice Connei one of the Survivors
VI ON. tne Greeiy expedition, who at present is To-
caleu IN tnls city as Signal Service Observer
Connell refused to talk in detail about his com.
panlonS on the ill-fated expedition and would
say nothlng either Way about the mooted can
nloalism or the alleged murders, so far as Others
were concerned. As regarded himself he was
neither a murderer nor a cannibal and he ONLY
hoped the Government would institute an m
hes.lgaIion, ~ so mat the horrible suspicion might
De removed. AS matters at present stood he
considered that be was being persecpted He
could not go on the street but what he imao;nod
tnat people looked at him and pointed him out
as man VINO mad eaten the flesh of his fellow
man, and may be had taken part in putting him
10 death. fs A
When asked about the truthfulness of the
various rumors regarding the sickening details
of life in and about cape Sabine where thn
deaths mostly occurred, and where cannihsIisnn
was said to have been praeticed, he answered
L posillNely decIlne to answer any Questions
about ANYBODY but myself | have probahlv
SAID now too much for my own good. Nobody
knows the life have lived since came hsct:
ana NOBODY VIII till l include that with the
story OF my experience in the expedition to be
told before properly instituted Board OF IN
qulry. II there ever is such an one formed to in
vesllgate the matter. This suspicion is horrible,
and the Government is under obligations To ms
10 clear up the mystery, and some (iay if | am
not exonerated, will tell my story and bv the ,,,
living ana dead, will prove my innocence
for himself" -''''-'
What did your food consist of after vour
ratpns gave out on the 18th of April till the day
OF your rescue on June 22dgi
" From the day the rations were said IN he
exhausted lived on lichens gathered from the
rocks Dy myself, and a few seals1in scraps and
." lew lhslgnlhcant shrimps picked out of the
water. owe my life" he remarked in n hit
Ter spirit; to only myself-not to the killing
OF my leIlowmen nor eating Of their lesh-to no
one but myself and my rescuers."
, Dld you oversee any act of cannibalism in
the party p ''''-''-i -
won't say anything about that"
=, iIo Dlo hoe alI the men keep diary ?'
Most OF them did"
Did you ~
. guess so.'
" Have you got il ?''
" think could find mine if I tried said
Connell, with another smile
HOW many men out OF the twenty five in the
expedition were rescued ?''
Six" he replied.
"Ald as but thirteen bodies gera found ,rhat
became OF the missing six ~
don't know. Rice died about twenty-five
miles from Cape Sabine in the snow, and Fred
erieks had to leave the body where il fell The
EsqulmauX was drowned, and his body swept
away. did not help bury auy bodies after the
fifth or sixth death So of Tho ract I,,,o,r ~
ing"
Why do you take so mnch to heart the Sis
plclons you referto? You were under orders.
were you not, and so not responsible for what
ever was done"
4 wish to be exonorated from all blame or
Suspicion. DO you think ii discredit to Weld
10 the temptation to devour your fellow man 81
for one to resist this temptation and then not to
get credit for t?'
"Yes."
We'll, that Just my position" said Connell
porter. VIC
Yes, the opportunity presented-the terrible
craving was there, and l resisted"
How about the others?'
have nothing to say about Others / only
had my own morals to look after"
Connell, IN conclusion said that the dead as
well as the living deserved justice, and that the
Government owed it to them to take action and
clear up the mystery, as well as to redress
wrongs, II any such existed, and that he was
time came.